North Carolina Highway Board Names New Counsel and Opens Meetings
B Patton Macon named general counsel for the highway commission and H Rogers Jr as assistant. Honeycutt of the prison system becomes director with a $4000 salary, while Rogers earns $4800. The panel resumes open meetings with limited executive sessions. Dairy industry grows as Governor Cherry cites rising dairying and NC Dairy Products Association hosts remarks by Broughton Ballentine and Scott.
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Raleigh
B. Patton
Macon
Highway Commission
H. Rogers, Jr
H. H. Honeycutt
Patton
Ross
Rogers
Motor Hicles
Honeycutt
Prisonet
Penalth
Cherry
The
North Carolina Dairy Products Association
J. M. Broughton
L. Y. Ballentine
W. Kerr Scott
Nitrogen Test Helps North Carolina Farms Gauge Fertilizer
In Raleigh, Carolina farmers use a new nitrogen test from North Carolina State College extension to check if corn lacks nitrogen. Agronomy head Emerson Collins supplies county agents with a simple liquid reagent. corn stalk tissue turns blue if nitrogen is adequate, indicating timely fertilizer adjustments.
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Raleigh
Carolina
State College
Emerson Collins
Ins
College hosts statewide veterans affairs institute
GREENSBORO June 21 A state wide institute on veterans affairs will be held July 10 and 11 at A and T college. The rural electric administration announced additional loans totaling 747000 dollars to four North Carolina cooperatives bringing year to date total to 2718000 and total loaned since 1935 to 22660802. Nearest named cooperatives Lumbee River Raeford Pee Dee Roanoke Edgecombe Martin Tarboro with loan amounts 154000 132000 285000 and 126000 respectively for lines and members served.
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Greensboro
Institute On Veterans Affairs
A. and T. College
Raleigh
Rural Electrification Administration
North Carolina
Lumbee River
Raeford
Pee Dee
Wadesboro
Roanoke
Richsquare
Edgecombe
Laundry Strike In Charlotte Reaches Fourth Week
J. A. Moore president of the Charlotte Central Labor union telegraphed President Truman about a strike of several hundred laundry workers in its fourth week. The message cited wages of 18 to 20 cents an hour and lack of employer talks, urging managements to confer with the workers or risk further action.
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CH . J. A. Moore
Charlotte Central Labor Union
Truman
Moore
Laundry Workers International Union
Liver Sausage and Deviled Platter Menu
Pleasant instructions for preparing Wilson liver sausage and pairings. The text describes cooking steps for eggs, quick cooling, and serving ideas with potatoes, biscuits, marmalade, raspberries, and cream to create a complete menu.
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Wilson
Ilson
Simaler
Barge Line Keeps Supplies Flowing for Allies in Burma and China
At Calcutta ports the 104-foot barges of the Army Transportation Corps haul dry cargo and gasoline to support China and Burma fronts. Manned by seasoned river seamen, they unload up to 6,237 tons in a day and deliver aircraft engines and other materiel to airfields and Stilwell road supplies.
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Yank
Burma
China
Ralph L. Guyette
Central Press
Ganges
Hooghly
Calcutta
L. E. Barry
Cairo
Ill
The
Transportation Corps
Transport Corps
Stilwell Road
Florida Everglades
Louisiana
America
King George Docks
Army Transportation Corps
Labor Shortage Hits Timber and Pulpwood Supply
Raleigh June 21. R W Graeber head of extension forestry at State College says labor bottlenecks in the woods, not sawmills, slow timber output for war needs. He warns only about three fourths of 40 billion board feet may be produced this year due to shortage of timber cutters.
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College Station
Raleigh
R. W. Graeber
State College
Graeber
Tokyo
Seedless tomatoes grown at Colorado University
Miss Edna L. Johnson, biology professor, disclosed that Colorado University scientists have produced seedless tomatoes. By treating tomato flower pistils with a physiologically active chemical first synthesized at the university, biology graduate Miss Louise Hering achieved the seedless crop.
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Boulder, Colo
Colorado University
Edna L. Johnson
University of Colorado
Louise Hering
Divers search 200 feet deep in Columbia for dam anchor site
Four deep water divers say their toughest job is the current search 200 feet deep in violent Columbia River waters for a suitable river bottom. Army engineers aim to dam the river at a narrow Columbia Gorge point and must confirm bottom conditions and type before proceeding.
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Dalles, Ore
INS
Columbia River
Army
Great River
Columbia Gorge
Army officer delivers Russian woman's baby abroad
Major Walter P. Gage a New York based army medical officer and former civilian obstetrician assisted in delivering the seven pound daughter of a Russian woman liberated in Germany by American troops amid overseas service.
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New York
INS
Walter P. Gage
Germany
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